List of Spellings

There are approximately 120 spellings of the name Boggess that we have found so far. Due to the great amount of illiteracy that was prevalent in the early days, written records and written surnames were mainly left to city and county clerks, census takers, tax collectors, and ministers. These officials often spelled the name phonetically or just how it sounded to them. Sometimes the surname was spelled several different ways in the same document. Members of the same family did not always use the same spelling of the name. Some individuals changes the spelling of their name during their lifetime.

Here is the list of different spellings that we have collected so far.